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So I have over time delevloped a set of elements that I generally merge with all "locations". Cities. States. Countries. Etc. I wanted to toss the list out and see what other elements people have that are good to do this with.

Animal
Cat Breed
Dog Breed
City (with things that are not cities)
River
Mountain
Lake
Volcano
Country (With things that are not themselves countries)
Food
Drink

This is an informal challenge. I'm not one of the devs, so there is no official reward to be offered. Also, for copyright reasons this is not really one that the dev could use in an official challenge.

Paras is one of the last two first generation pokemon that have yet to be created in the AI game. (The other is Seel). A number of us have been working on creating it for a while now with no luck yet. So I thought I might toss it out to the wider community as a challenge.

On a chat that I am on a lot of information on the word, and it's multiple meanings, has been collected, all as possible routes to creating the element. I'm going to just link the Bulbapedia entry in this main post

This is not a discussion about bulk farming First Evers. That's covered in the recent Gold Mine post. This is about strategies for generating a specific First Ever. How to get the AI to generate a specific element that does not yet exist in the game. Things like Cozy Fireplace and Ribbon Bow in the current event. And for me, generating pokemon that do not yet exist. Paras and Seel, for instance, are the last two Gen 1 pokemon that do not exist in the AI game. I'm going to detail what I see as a good strategy, and see if anyone else has any differing suggestions for different strategies or how to improve my basic one.

I call this is Random Brute Force strategy, and I think it or some

This came up in another thread, but I figured I would summarize the pokemon that are known to not (yet) exist in the AI game. When I say that they do not exist, I mean that noone has yet managed to create that specific pokemon yet. These can be verified easily enough by doing a blueprint search on them. If the search results offer to sell you a blueprint, the element exists. Otherwise you get a message specifically saying it does not exist.

I will also note that I have not verified these in the last couple of days, so it's fully possible a few have since been created.

Gen 1:
Paras
Nidoran (special case because the official names use characters not in the AI game.)
Seel

Gen 2:

Trying to refine a theory about the game that I have posted about before. The devs have confirmed the basic theory, so that's not at issue, but I'm looking for evidence against my refined version.

The basic theory, which as I said the devs have confirmed, is that the game removes from the set of possible results for a merge the result that is simply the combination of the merged words. So "First" + "Name" cannot return "First Name".

I will also say I have seen at least one example that it does work if the result is a single word that combines the words merged. The known example is "Dragon" + "fruit" = "Dragonfruit".

So my thought is that the limit is actually a bit broader. And this

The issue is the description. It reads like an error message rather than an actual element description.

I wanted to discuss what extra conditions the game puts on matches. Ones we know are there, confirmed by the devs, and ones we suspect are in place.

First a confirmed one. The devs have stated that the game excludes from the allowable results a result that simply puts together the words in the submitted elements. So Last + Name will never generate Last Name. I will add that this apparently only prevents putting them together as a multiple word result. I know of at least one example where two elements are combined into a single word result just fine. (Dragon + Fruit = Dragonfruit)

Now a suspected one. I'm not sure of the exact parameters of this, but I suspect there is in place a

I've got 40 of 50 for the Christmas event. So I'm in the home stretch. But the last few are eluding me. So this is a thread to ask for assistance with them. I will create a sub-tread for each problem one, and will compile the info I have seen in other threads to avoid duplication and point out where I'm still stuck. Separating it out like this will also let me be systematic about proclaiming success as I get these last few.

Edit. Thanks to those who helped. I'm now complete. I hope this info helps others as well since the event still has several more weeks to run.

My gut feeling is that this is not possible, but I know that if I don't at least throw the idea out there, there is no way of it happening.

Ina's fans pulled off the Times Square thing for her. Gura's birthday is coming up now. What could we somehow manage to pull off for her? And I thought about the possibility of turning her birthday stream into a double celebration.

Gura is still gaining subs at an amazing rate. 170K in May alone. At the end of May she was right around 2.76Mil subs. At her current rate she will easily pass the 3Mil mark sometime in July.

But what if we could, as a community, give her a push? A bit of acceleration in the final run up to 3Mil. To my mind the perf